...Work Culture Preferences Marcia P. Smith BCOM/275 June 24, 2014 Jacqueline Gray-Crawford Work Culture Preferences My results of the Career Activity’s Work Culture Preferences survey showed that I prefer high powered, demanding jobs that are well-resourced and have a professionally ethical environment. These results tell me a lot about how I should communicate and what channels I should use to achieve effective communication. Presently I prefer to communicate via meetings and telephone conversations, but my survey results reveal that I will need to transition to faster more effective ways if I want to operate at the highest level of efficiency. In high-powered work situations, time restraints are real and the way in which we communicate in these situations are very different from the way we communicate when time is not “of the essence”. Knowing that my work culture preference is a time-restraining, fast career advancement environment will now force me to rely on the fastest channels available to relay my messages. Communicating using channels like cellular phones, emails, teleconferencing and texting will prove most effective for me in my ideal work environment. To successfully work within my time limits, I will not be able to attend or schedule many face-to-face meetings, do much travelling for conferences or meetings nor use paper based correspondences as these channels require more time. My results disclose something else about my messages – the quality of them will...
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...Work Culture Preferences Townes, Christopher Gen/200 July 10, 2013 Dr. Johnella Bradford Work Culture Preferences My Career Plan: Work Culture Preference states that I am an ethical well-resourced expert. Based on over one-hundred questions given that narrow down what I would like in an ideal job setting, I had only the choices of not at all or more likely. Knowing my ideal work culture not only would allow me to benefit my organization to achieve goals but will also allow me to achieve personal goals as well. I’m excited to find the work culture preference results returned that being ethical was the first of the three qualities it defined me as. Emphasis on fairness and equal rights has always been important to me, I believe that my timed served in the Navy is a reinforcing factor in that you should not segregate by gender, ethnicity or cultures. There should be no one person that is looked at as inferior or not qualified to complete any task assigned. I would look for the people who would not be afraid to express themselves freely and contribute their thoughts and ideas to better the organization. The next quality work culture preference defined in my results was that I was well resourced. Providing a safe and comfortable work environment with all the necessary resources to do high standard work is paramount, ensuring that encourages employees to want to work and perform at their highest level. A safe environment results towards limitless performance, innovation and...
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...March 25th, 2014 Mrs. Carr BCOM 275 Work Culture Preference It’s all about being around different work situations that help you determine which work cultures you do best in and which ones may not work as well. It is obviously good to be in a safe place to work and be comfortable but it is also good to be helpful in all the ways in which your business expects. I also learned that it is good to put more emphasis on subjects that matter in any career and with more engagement these will encourage you to do much better and be more creative and dynamic in different work conditions. I think this also helps me tremendously organize my communication strategies and how I influence a group of people or team type atmosphere. I really like to make others see that their job choice is the right one and that if you work together you can all be leaders in your own ways and have the jobs that you want in any type of condition you choose to put yourself in. I like to think of every job I get as an opportunity to do something important for people and have the opportunities to show that I can be a very important and strong influence on my fellow workers and team mates. Another reason I felt that this was so important is because it shows you what you have to be to succeed at other jobs and what it takes to keep your organization at a professional level and so really you never slack at what you do. Very important to take this work culture preference resource because I have a better picture of...
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...In order to communicate successfully, we have to consider cultural differences. The economy in the age of Internet, e-mail and business English is becoming more global and international. The great cities and countries around the world compete for highly skilled workers (Lustig, 2013). While high-context cultures need more background information to make a decision, low-context cultures take less. This is reflected in the speed of decision-making. Cultures that require high information content tend to need more time to make a decision. Lustig (2013) states, that high- context communication is the interactions that take place in a long-term relationship who are often able to interpret gestures and comments. Due to my culture, I tend to be a low context communicator. In my professional life, I like to make sure people understand the meaning of my conversation. When I trained new employees, I was always specific and precise as the new employees were not familiar with the new workplace and duties. Especially when training qualified employees on the daily book procedures, it was required to be detailed about the order of the operations. I changed my style of communication with employees that already were familiar with the work procedures; therefore, I only left a list of duties that were to be done. Most people I do communicate with I have known for a while and have a close connections to therefore my form of communicating is more informal. I do orientate my direction of communication...
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...Work Culture Preferences XXxxxxxxxxx XXXXXXX BCOM 275 December 8, 2013 Professor XXXXX xxxxxx Work Culture Preferences Having an appropriate understanding of your ideal work culture is indispensable in developing both strategic plans to plans to achieve organizational goals. When conducting a Work Culture Results analysis there are certain competencies that are necessary, each of the competencies involved is important in developing a Career Building Plan, but the level of significance varies between individuals. Based on the outcomes of my Career Plan Building Activity, in the Work Culture Preferences survey of my ideal work culture three competencies are most prevalent, Supportive, Ethical, and well resourced. As the results of my assessment illustrate, strengths are a significant element in my achieving organizational goals. Specific examples are a secure and stable environment combined with factors such as recognition and celebration of success; and the ability to be at a safe place to work. Equally important in developing strategic and operational plans to achieving organizational goals are available opportunities with emphasis on fairness. Specific examples are the opportunity for varied and ground breaking work, innovative and creative atmosphere and the opportunity to control my own work schedule and organization. The manners in which my specific competencies relate to the required competencies for conducting a Work culture analysis are that my competencies...
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...Work Culture Preferences Jason Higgins BCOM/275 Sunday, May 12, 2013 Brian J. Kane Work Culture Preferences Part of my studies has led me to complete a work center culture preference survey. It has shown me that I am well suited for my job and why I am successful at it. My work culture preferences are teamwork centered, performance focused, and expert driven. Knowing these work culture preferences determine appropriate channels for communication because these help us realize what we need to focus more on when communicating with others because it shows us what we are good at. I feel like I really use these work culture preferences each and every day and I feel that they are getting stronger. Also, knowing these, assists me in developing my weak areas when communicating. I am able to communicate personably but I have high expectations. I am creative and like to express my comments and thoughts, sometimes a little too passionately. I like to control things and I like to have control or taking control of situations. I also like to organize things and the personnel to get them accomplished. The steps I plan on implementing to improve my messages is to actively listen to others feedback with thoughtful response. I will also carefully consider changing my outlook on things. Conclusion This exercise has helped me to learn about myself and how I may improve upon a varying skillset...
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...Work Culture Preference Maria Hernandez MGT/521 February 27, 2013 Dr. Vela Work Culture Preference The following describes ideal work culture and how it is essential for developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals. “Each of us has a unique personality – traits and characteristics that influence the way we act and interact with others” (Robbins & Coulter, 2012, p. 51). These personal traits and characteristics when matched up with the values and competencies of the work environment make easier to achieve company goals. One can find the ideal work culture based on one’s values by completing an evaluation, such as the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference. Ideal Work Culture For instance an ideal work culture may include high powered, expert, and ethical environments. High-powered organizations have demanding jobs, career development, and the chance to try different jobs or work in different places. One with these preferences would need to find a culture that not only promotes the above but also one that motivates the employee to obtain career advancement. When an employee does not have opportunities for advancement his or her motivation will decline. In an expert culture this includes varied and groundbreaking work, high emphasis on specialist expertise, people encouraged to express opinions, innovative, creative atmosphere, control work schedule and organization, and a dynamic and changing environment...
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...Cortney N. Smith Work Culture Preferences Once again I was pleasantly surprised with the results of my Career Plan Building Activity. This time around I was surprised by how much my results directly reflect my current role. My results were an environment that is high powered, well resourced and expert based. Some of the direct characteristics of high powered are career development and career advancement; these directly reflect one of the things I love about my current company. I’ve only been working for the company for three years have advanced through three different roles and am currently on a career experience with our corporate offices. My company provides a well resourced in environment that drives innovation and encourages high engagement with minimal direction. Knowing my ideal work culture allowed me to evaluate previous places of employment. Through this evaluation process, I was able to determine why these places may not have been as fulfilling as my current work. Knowing these results also helped me evaluate my methods of communication. I tend to lean toward my resources and need minimal direction in completing a task, however when working with other they may not have the same approach. Therefore, I need to make sure that I don’t present aggression when replying to someone who did not use his or her resources to find an answer and maybe just chose to ask. This situation can also happen when working on a project with someone who isn’t as organized as...
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...Work Culture Preferences and Competencies The Work Culture Results states that I am a well-resourced supportive expert. Knowing my ideal work culture not only would benefit not only my organization to achieve goals but also will allow me to achieve personal goals as well. Strategic Plans are plans that apply to the entire organization. This type of plan will allow me to develop a workplace that will allow the employees not to be afraid of disciplinary actions and to express themselves freely. The employees would make suggestions that would be considered. The company will focus on achieving goals and each manager/person in charge will specialize in that particular field of study. Possessing the knowledge in a particular area is to have an Operational Plan. There are two competencies essential to conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis; External and Internal analysis. An External analysis deals with what the competitors are doing. What and how the law has changed and what labor cost are and could be in the future; managers should pay close attention to the economics, demographics, and in technology, to name a few. An Internal analysis inspects what the company has and if it will be able to compete with its competition. The Internal analysis looks closely at the resources within the company. A company cannot survive or will never launch if these two factors are not done correctly. The purpose for a (SWOT) analysis is to take a complete...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Student ID #________________________ Section_________________ ------------------------------------------------- AssessmentNo. | Assessment | Completed | 1 | How satisfied are you with your present job? Answer questions on p. 57 | | 2 | What is my Big 5 personality profile 5? Answer questions on p.82 | | 3 | What is the status of my acquired needs? Answer questions on p.150 | | 4 | What rewards do I value most? Answer questions on p.201 | | 5 | What are my signature strengths? Answer questions on p.244 | | 6 | Group and Team role preferences scale. Answer questions on p. 259 | | 7 | What is your preferred conflict handling style? Answer questions on p.351 | | 8 | Corporate culture preference scale. Answer questions on p. 501 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Please write out the UNCG Academic Integrity Policy statement and sign your name here: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------...
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...education and learned preferences. Since the author has spent in excess of twenty five years in the professional workforce, the types of positions that are attractive has tapered to a fraction of the potential positions for consideration even ten years ago. Below is a list of five positions that would be acceptable. 1. University Professor 2. Product Manager 3. Chief Learning Officer 4. University Administrator 5. Restaurant/Pub Owner Operator Objectives Contributing to the Decision The objectives or criteria that would contribute to the decision of accepting any of the five positions listed above include: Autonomy, Intrinsic Reward Potential, Personal Contribution to the Success of the Business, Leadership Role, Income Potential, Benefits, Power, Status, Impact to Society, Company Reputation and Culture etc. For the sake of brievety in creating the scale, four of these attributes will be used including: Income Potential, Leadership and Impact to Society, Intrinsic Reward Potential. Utility Scale Utility, in decision making is a subjective measure of a person’s desires versus an objective number or measure – it is the personal value placed upon a criteria or requirement for a particular object (Muehlhauser, 2013). According to Muehlhauser (2013), decision tools can capture a person’s utility or subjective preferences by assigning numerical values to outcomes where higher numbers represent higher utility or personal preference. Decisions almost always...
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...At the heart of bias untruths two ideas: lack of awareness and apprehension. Every one of us has a tendency to have biased dispositions towards others. This sort of preference or "pre-judgment" depends on lack of awareness. It is a typical human reaction to racial, social, sexual or different type of contrasts, on the grounds that every individual have a tendency toward prejudge other on top of the premise of restricted learning, particularly on the off chance to they are not the similar as us. In this way we are all preferential, and for all intents and purposes none are excluded. A large portion of what goes for preference in the public eye is the after-effect of lack of awareness of different gatherings and their lifestyle and social condition. In light of the way “American” culture is in the blink of an eye organized, most “Whites” have neither applied thought nor direct experience of life in the “African American” and “Latino” groups. This is on account of the overall standards of partition and isolation that avert individuals of distinctive racial/ethnic gatherings from communicating with one another in an important and positive way; sustain this obliviousness of gatherings, which thusly offers ascend to states of mind of partiality. For such a typical person situation, the exhortation of a previous theological school educator of colliery is mainly useful and deserving of practice: "The characteristic of a full grown personality is the capacity to suspend judgment until...
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...TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTANCY MARKETING MANAGEMENT TO DETERMINE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCED FM STUDENTS IN CHOOSING MCDONALD’S MEAL In Partial Fulfillment of the Subject Requirement In Marketing Research Submitted by: BARTOLO, LYKABETIZA M. JAVIERTO, JEFFREY M. MKM 2-3 Submitted to: DR. ELIZABETH AMURAO To determine factors which influenced 50 selected FM students in choosing McDonald’s Meal BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Ray Kroc started it all when he bought the franchise of a small burger joint owned by Dick and Mac McDonald, and opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955. Now, McDonald’s has more than 30,000 restaurants, serving nearly 50 million people in over 119 countries everyday, making it the number one quick-service restaurant in the world. George T. Yang built the first Golden Arches in the Philippines in 1981. As of 2005, McDonald’s Philippines is a 100% Filipino-owned company. From its first restaurant along Morayta, Manila in 1981, McDonald’s has grown to become one of the leading fast food chains with close to 300 restaurants nationwide! With Kenneth S. Yang at the helm, McDonald’s is now a multi-billion peso company that continues to expand and serve Filipinos all over the country. McDonald’s is a customer-oriented company that strives to offer Filipinos a combination of great tasting, quality food products at value prices with excellent service. Well loved McDonald’s products like...
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...specific purpose? To help individuals who has no time because of work and family. In choosing a specific purpose, how may you narrow the topic so it is appropriate to this audience? I would like to inform my audience that there is a really easy and quick snack that will be tasty. Demographic Audience Analysis: What special adaptation is necessary in the speech? It depends on the individuals taste and preferences. Some people could be allergic to fish cake or they prefer not to eat mayonnaise. Age: Making sure that when presenting such a speech that is targeted for the right age group. Children may prefer candy or sweets and adults may or may not like the taste of the snack. Gender: It is important that I do not offend someone’s gender in the process of giving my speech. Whether it is female or male it depends on what kinds of food they eat. Sexual orientation: Sexual orientation has nothing to do with my speech, but I need to make sure that I am not discriminating anyone because of their sexual preference. Religion: Although my ingredients may be from one culture who’s belief is of their own. There is no religion requirement to participate in making or eating this snack Racial, ethnic, and cultural background: Race and ethnicity has nothing to do with it, but cultural it may have a tiny impact. It depends on what the expectations are on preparing fish cake. Group membership: This presentation is for all members of society. There’s no membership required to enjoy an...
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...and preparedness, and preferred learning strategies” (Prithishkumar & Michael, 2014, p. 184). How can a teacher determine their teaching strategies to better assist with learning among such a diverse culture of students? The VARK, may very well be the solution for both teacher and student. “The VARK learning style model was introduced by Neil Fleming in 2006. VARK is an acronym, which stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic modalities” (Prithishkumar & Michael, 2014, p. 184). The VARK is a short questionnaire that identifies the participants’ sensory modality preference. Helping the learner understanding how they learn and receive information. The verdict on the VARK learning assessment is that the writer falls into the category of the multimodal. This means she has a couple different learning preferences. Which was not a real surprise to her taking in consideration she prefers to listen to lectures but also enjoys hands on approach to learning as well. Taking a closer look at what this means for the writer and her preferred learning, what does multimodal mean anyways? According to the designer of the VARK, multimodal means that the learner prefers to learn using multiple learning modes. Whether or not the learner uses all of them at once, is the preference of the learner. There are three ways in which multimodal learners prefer to learn. They are described as: Context Specific Approach, Whole-Sense Approach and Sequencing (Fleming, 2014). Since a high...
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